期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
卷 48, 期 1, 页码 55-64出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2009.06.019
关键词
Pacemaker current; SAN; HCN clones; HCN knockout mice; HCN-associated pathologies
资金
- Ministero dell' Istruzione dell'Universita e della Ricerca [2007WB35cw]
- European Union
In mammals cardiac rate is determined by the duration of the diastolic depolarization of sinoatrial node (SAN) cells which is mainly determined by the pacemaker I-f current I-f-channels are encoded by four members of the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated gene (HCN1-4) family. HCN4 is the most abundant isoform in the SAN, and its relevance to pacemaking has been further supported by the discovery of four loss-of-function mutations in patients with mild or severe forms of cardiac rate disturbances. Due to its selective contribution to pacemaking, the I-f current is also the pharmacological target of a selective heart rate-reducing agent (ivabradine) currently used in the clinical practice. Albeit to a minor extent, the I-f current is also present in other spontaneously active myocytes of the cardiac conduction system (atrioventricular node and Purkinje fibres). In working atrial and ventricular myocytes f-channels are expressed at a very low level and do not play any physiological role; however in certain pathological conditions over-expression of HCN proteins may represent an arrhythmogenic mechanism. In this review some of the most recent findings on f/HCN channels contribution to pacemaking are described. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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